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Selected poems of James K. Baxter / edited by Paul Millar ; cover design, Athena Sommerfeld.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baxter, James K., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- New Zealand poetry--20th century.
- New Zealand poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (320 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Auckland, New Zealand : Auckland University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- By 1972, when James K. Baxter died aged just 46, his colourful life and distinctive poetry had captured the imagination of New Zealanders as no literary figure before him. Selected Poems of James K. Baxter is a new generous and authoritative selection of Baxter's verse for general readers and students by New Zealand's leading Baxter scholar, Paul Millar. With a range of poems from the 1940s, 1950s, 1960s and the Jerusalem period, full texts of major sequences Pig Island Letters' and the Jerusalem Sonnets', and key new poems directly from manuscript, Millar's selection reveals the breadth of Baxter's achievement, not merely its peaks from the comic and bawdy to the political and devotional. Selected Poems of James K. Baxter also includes an insightful introduction by Millar and short prefaces to the four parts, plus four Baxter photos, useful notes, a glossary of Maori words and index.
- Contents:
- Contents
- Introduction
- Note on the Text
- THE 1940s
- Beyond the Palisade
- The Mountains
- Love-Lyric III
- Letter to Noel Ginn
- The First Forgotten
- University Song
- Envoi [to "University Song"]
- High Country Weather
- Blow, Wind of Fruitfulness
- Odysseus
- Returned Soldier
- The Bay
- Sea Noon
- Let Time be Still
- Tunnel Beach
- Songs of the Desert, 8 ["As we have sown"]
- To my Father ["Today, looking at the flowering peach"]
- The Cave
- Farmhand
- Letter to Noel Ginn II
- Poem by the Clock Tower, Sumner
- Virginia Lake
- Hart Crane
- Wellington
- Rocket Show
- Wild Bees
- Poem in the Matukituki Valley
- THE 1950s
- A Rented Room
- The Fallen House
- Cressida, 11: Her Decision
- The Bad Young Man
- The Homecoming
- Never No More
- The Surfman's Story
- Perseus
- Spring Song
- Elegy at the Year's End
- Lament for Barney Flanagan
- To my Father ["Dear friend,]
- The Giant's Grave
- Reflections on a Varsity Career
- Crossing Cook Strait
- Harry Fat and Uncle Sam
- A Rope for Harry FatHusband to Wife
- In Fires of No Return
- By the Dry Cardrona
- At Hokianga
- Pyrrha
- At Akitio
- The Phoenix-Nest
- Song of the Years
- Howrah Bridge
- School Days
- This Indian Morning
- Night in Delhi
- Be Happy in Bed
- Elephanta
- Return to Exile
- Mr Baxter's Evening Liturgy
- Spring Song of a Civil Servant
- THE 1960s
- The Sixties
- Ballad of Calvary Street
- Evidence at the Witch Trials
- Christchurch 1948
- Winter
- To Our Lady of Perpetual Help
- On the Death of her Body
- Pig Island Letters
- The Waves
- Letter to Robert Burns
- Tomcat
- from The Holy Life and Death of Concrete Grady
- 1 The Ballad of Grady's Dream
- Thoughts of a Remuera Housewife
- To a Print of Queen Victoria
- Ballad of Nine Jobs
- A Bucket of Blood for a Dollar
- The Old Earth Closet
- The Lion Skin
- On Possessing the Burns Fellowship 1966
- At Aramoana
- The Maori Jesus
- Daughter
- from Words to Lay a Strong Ghost
- 1 The Party
- 12 The Rock
- 13 The Flower
- To my Father in Spring
- Travelling to Dunedin
- At Queenstown.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781869405427
- 1869405420
- OCLC:
- 862828904
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